Question

mention the role of press behind the social reform movement of bengal​

Answer 1

The role of press behind the social reform movement of Bengal​

Explanation:

• During the later half of the nineteenth century, the spirit of social reform was  evident in almost all the provinces of India. Assam was no exception to it. Newspapers  played a significant role in reflecting this spirit of reform. "There were at the beginning of the nineteenth century, numerous social evils of  such a character as would rudely shock our sensibility at the present day. They  were tolerated, partly out of veneration for the old customs and partly out of sheer  inertia. But the urge of a rational spirit which declared war against religious  superstitions could ill brook the social evils which were eating into the vitals of  the society." Society in India had passed through numerous phases of change.
• In her long  and chequered history, there have been periods of progress, regeneration and reform, as well as periods of decay, dissolution and degeneration. The eighteenth century and  the early part of nineteenth century witnessed the latter tendencies. While in Europe, it was the age of enlightenment, in India it was a period of stagnation. Social institution, customs and practices began to assume a rigid and petrified form. Irrational social  practices became conspicous features of the period. Religion, the pivot of Indian life, had always exercised great influence on the people in their social ways and habits . With religions attaching more importance to the external form rather than to inner  realisation, religious superstitions began to pervade all aspects of social life. The priestly  class became dominant in the society, majority of whom seldom understood the  scriptures and cared little for spiritual values. But the society obeyed them faithfully .They could explain any and every social evil as holy, with the apparent sanction of the  scriptures behind it. Infanticide, childmarriage, polygamy, sati and other social evils, were all interpreted as scripturally and religiously valid.

Answer 2

Press means paper media plays a very significant role in the social reform movement that took place in Bengal.

● Papers assumed a noteworthy job in mirroring this soul of reform.

● There were toward the start of the nineteenth century, various social indecencies of such a character as would impolitely stun our reasonableness at the present day.